• drislands@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Fun fact, uptime goals are measured in nines – for example, 99.9% is three nines of uptime. If that one outage lasted an entire day, and they were never down at any other time, that would indeed be three nines of uptime.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, my net admin colleagues explained that one to me a while back because the bosses were making similar uninformed demands (“this needs to never go down!” “Sure, here is how much that costs”). It was very enlightening :)

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          9 months ago

          Those colleagues are pretty much all quitting now, after their over time calculation has been modified because it was costing the company too much, while for other teams like mine it stayed the same. It’s hilarious seeing the complete panic from the higher ups realizing how badly they fucked up. And I don’t think they actually really realize…

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Once I got a serious response to that from a manager saying that he could go on eBay, buy his own servers and do it himself. My response was to quit.